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Connect to Windows shared folder

There are several ways to download files from a Windows shared folder (SMB).

Mount folder to application server

You can mount a shared folder to the Linux server with the Intelligent Automation Cloud installation.

Read files using RPA

You can read files and upload them to S3 using RPA. Run a Groovy script on the RPA server, read a file, and save it to the S3 folder.

See the script

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config>

    <var-def name="test_node_id">
        <template>${test_node_id}</template>
    </var-def>

    <var-def name="file_name">
        <template>${file_name}</template>
    </var-def>

    <script><![CDATA[
    
        import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*;
        import org.openqa.selenium.*;
    
        import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
        import java.io.File;
        import java.io.FileOutputStream;
        import java.io.InputStream;
        import java.nio.file.Files;
        import java.nio.file.Path;
        import java.nio.file.Paths;
        import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
        import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;

        Integer ELEMENT_TIMEOUT = 15;
        Integer PAGE_TIMEOUT = 40;
        Integer SMART_WAIT = 60;

        byte[] entryPasisingData = null;

        public byte[] readDataFromFile(String fileName){
                byte[] byteArray = null;
                String byteString = (String) autoitDriver.executeScript(
                "byte[] result=java.nio.file.Files.readAllBytes(java.nio.file.Paths.get(\"C:/Users/\"+System.getProperty(\"user.name\")+\"/Downloads/"
                + fileName + "\"));\n"
                + "byte[] encoded=org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64.encodeBase64(result);\n"
                + "return new String(encoded);",
                new String[] {  "GROOVY"  });
                byteArray = Base64.decodeBase64(byteString.getBytes());
                return byteArray;
        }
    ]]></script>


    <selenium-flow>
        <selenium name="aDriver" browser="autoit"    close-on-completion="true" start-in-private="false" node-id="${test_node_id}">
            <script><![CDATA[
                    autoitDriver = aDriver.getWrappedObject();
                    Thread.sleep(2000);
                    entryPasisingData = readDataFromFile(file_name.toString().trim());
            ]]></script>
        </selenium>
    </selenium-flow>

    <var-def name="file_url">
        <s3 bucket="screenshots">
            <s3-put path="s3_file_older/${file_name}" content-type="application/octet-stream" content-disposition="inline" acl="PublicRead">
                <script return='entryPasisingData' />
            </s3-put>
        </s3>
    </var-def>

    <export include-original-data="false">
        <single-column name="file_url" value="${file_url}" />
    </export>
</config>

It opens the file from C:/users/user_name_profile/Downloads. Put the file into this folder only. The node_id property helps to specify a particular RPA node ID to launch and view this sample.

tip

To extract files from a shared folder using the SMB protocol and store the files on S3, see the Share Folder connector description.

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